The option should take a URL and should print the page at that URL (preferably, but not necessarily, without opening a browser window) Example: apprunner -print http://www.apple.com

Can you do this by M7? Or should someone else do it? Or should we do it even later?

Accepting

Radha, what we need is -print command line support for all platforms ...

Am I suppose to provide the cmd line option or implement this feature? If it is former, then, there is nothing I need to do. The command line processor just caches all the arguments. Just process the argument in your code and provide it while running. Look at nsApprunner.cpp or nsBrowserAppcore.cpp for example.

Radha, I think we were hoping you would implement it. apprunner -print foo.html should print the page without opening a window, and then quit. This will enable the macintosh to support the last of the four required appleevents. The Macintosh wiring is in already to use your excellent command-line repository thingummy, but no -print option has been implemented.

Alright, shll consider for M7

I think a -print option should be added for *ALL* platforms, not just the Mac... I would find the option pretty handy here on Linux whenever I wanted to print something from the commandline (which, being a Unix person, I often want to do).

I dont think this belongs to me, I am giving it back to you... radha

This really isn't a Mac-sopecific issue. Let's move this out to M14 for consideration with the other RFEs.

It's important on Mac because Print is one of the 4 required AppleEvents, and -print is how that would be implemented (I imagine).

Move to M15 for later evaluation.

Move to M16 for now ...

*** Bug 31603 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 31603 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Bug 31603 was indeed a duplicate but I'd like to add something from 31603 that has not been mentioned here. It would be nice if the -print commandline optionally took the printer queue name as an arguement. Example: apprunner -print hp8100n-downstairs http://www.mozilla.org Under UNIX, the printer queue would default to 'lp' and under Windows, it would default to whatever printer is chosen as the system default.

Since Don has left, Vishy is taking his bugs in bulk, pending reassignment. thanks, Vishy

Netscape Nav triage team: this is not a Netscape beta stopper.

taking from vishy

See also bug 68721, [rfe] print to postscript from command line.

->sujay, who tests printing.

over to nobody

*** Bug 123185 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

why is this assigned to nobody? i'm sure that many people would appreciate this feature (including me). it would enable automatic conversions of webpages to ps, pds an grafic-formats on servers with no X.

I would really like this feature, too.

Isn't this a dupicate of bug 100571 ?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100571 ***